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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-voting-system-and-constituencies-act-2011/schedule-2/paragraph-14",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/1",
  "legislation_title": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011",
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  "number": "14",
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  "text": "(1) The counting officer must appoint and pay—\n(a) a presiding officer to attend at each polling station;\n(b) however many clerks are necessary for the purposes of the referendum.\nBut the officer may not employ a person who has been employed by or on behalf of a permitted participant in or about the referendum.\n(2) The counting officer may, if the officer thinks fit, preside at a polling station.\n(3) A presiding officer may do, by the clerks appointed to assist the officer, any act (including the asking of questions) which the officer is required or authorised by these rules to do at a polling station except order the arrest, exclusion or removal of a person from the polling station.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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